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English Reading Journal 5
Book: The man in the iron mask

Author: Alexandre Dumas

Adapted by: Paul Mantell

Publishing Company: Random House

Year of publishing: 1998

Number of pages: 119

Classic

This novel has been adapted to a movie, with Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio who is the leading role. It was written by the great writer Alexandre Dumas who had written many famous novels.

The story was about Louis XIV, the king of France, who had an identical brother. Because they were twins, a possibility that a fight for the crown will occur when they grew up. Therefore, to avoid the civil war, the queen decided to send the other son, Philippe, away and tried her best to hide the boy's true identity. The boy was kind and smart and was unlike his twin brother, who was totally a tyrant. Then a musketeer named Aramis tried to let the good one to be the king. Although Aramis tried to make the plan work perfectly, he failed at last. In the end, Philippe accepted his fate and promise to wear the iron mask for the rest of his life and King Louis was a changed man from that event. He took full control of the kingdom and brought France to greater glory than it had ever known. To this day, people speak of him as "Sun King."

To celebrate the kingdom's glory, he built the fabulous palace of Versailles, grander ever than Fouquet's chateau at Vaux. It is still considered the finest palace in the world.

This novel is easy to read and because it is still a mystery, I think it will still be famous for a long time until the truth is found. I haven't seen the movie yet but I think it will probably be a good one to see. I will borrow it from the store during the winter vacation.

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